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NoCursor, Claude · 12 May 2026

When my AI makes a PR, I generally have to make some important changes, without which it's solution would be fundamentally broken

hatthew on Hacker News

In the thread “Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Lack of institutional knowledge and inability to make business tradeoff decisions.

… The institutional knowledge I have wouldn't fit in the context window, and AIs lack my mental index/intuition of where to look for answers. When my AI makes a PR, I generally have to make some important changes, without which it's solution would be fundamentally broken. AI also cannot be trusted to make the right business tradeoff decisions.